The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-09-15

but .he idea is terrible. We are not only to
be destroyed, but we are to be denied the
right of Christian burial. We are all to find
common grave beneath the wild waves of
the sea. This time it is not comedy but high
tragedy. He is to play the role of Moses and
enact another Red Sea disaster. Such mar
velous performances have not been under
taken by single person since the day of Don
Quixote. 1t is altogether probable that this
latter-day imitatpr of that Spanish Knight
will in November, meet with the same dis
aster which overlook his illustrious Tut un-
fortunate prototype.
VIOLATING CIVIL SERVICE.
Again, he accepted the nomination upon a
platform declaring for Civil Service Reform.
After pledging himself to this measure, his
first act to select an executive committee
of which the present Commissioner of Rail-
roads and Telegraphs was made chairman !;
the State Librarian, the Secretary and side
by side with. these, upon the same committee,
he placed the Clerk of the Supreme Court
and his own private Secretary. These four
officials are now receiving from the State Of
Ohio, salaries aggregating at least twelve
thousand dollars annually; yet, instead of at
tending to the duties of their respective Off
ces, they are giving their time to advancing
the fortunes of single candidate who repre-
sents the interests of less than half the voters
in the State.
1t is possible the Governor may claim that
for Chairman, it was necessary for him to
have man who could combine railroad ex-
perience with political ability, SO that he
might know exactly when the time and place
had been reached, to thoroughly wreck
John Sherman's Presidential train.
He may also claim that the Secretary is to
remain at his post in the State Library,
gathering information for suitable obituary
upon Sherman's political death, and that the
work of promoting the combination of Blaine
and Foraker, is to be trusted to his Private
Secretary also. Whatever may have been
the object, whether to advance his own for
tune obstruct Sherman's, the work shows
that promise and its performance never
before travelled so fast and so far in opposite
directions, except perhaps, in the case of the
single candidate, who deprived the people of
the largest city in Ohio, of the right to home
rule in their own affairs, and now asks the
same people to support him upon the ground,
he is in favor of home rule in Ireland. Home
rule is to be hoped and prayed for in Dub
lin, it is equally desirable in Cincinnati.
Again, it is we'll established fact that
while the present Legislature were engaged
in making its record as the most extrava-
giant which ever assembled IN Ohio while
appropriations were being made which ex-
ceeded three millions of dollars at each ses-
sion, and which amounts were hundreds of
thousands of dollars in excess of all the rev.
enues of the State; while honest Republi-
cans, both in the Legislature and without,
were uttering words of protest and warning,
and asking that the work of reckless extrava-
gance might be stopped, Governor Foraker
not only remained silent at the time, but now
confesses it is as economical an administration
as he or his party can furnish. Again we
know that the Governor by his silence, if
not by his express advice, consented that
members of his party in the Senate,
although in the minority should assume to be
majority, by declaring II to be a majority of
81. He consented they should overthrow, by
revolutionary measures, several express
provisions of the constitution, which they had
all alike sworn to support, and in violation of
organic law, assume to legislate for the third
state in the union.
This administration has supplemented such
work by attempts to increase the burdens of
taxation upon land owners and farmers; it
has advised raids private business and
other classes of citizens; it has suggested the
taxation of state bonds, which were made
non-taxable when issued it has even recon-
mended the adjustment of large number
of elective Offices, and the filling of the same
places by appointment, on the ground that
the people could not be trusted to honestly
fill them These facts are now all matters of
record, but l understand that such matters, as
obedience to the constitution, the execution
of law, the application of economy to our own
disordered affairs, saving the credit of the
state, have no interest for the present gov
ernor. He cares for no such things. His
time is entirely occupied with the
REBEL FLAGS.
In order to relieve his mind, propose to say
few words about them.
The whole situation can be covered in a
moment. There is no one in the north who
is trying to give them up. No one in the
south is trying to get them back. Major
General Drum, who is republican and the
Adjutant General of the United States, upon
his own motion, and in imitation of the ex-
ample set by Charles Sumner, many years
ago, thought it would be proper thing to
restore these old flags to the men from whom
they had been taken, the same as they have,
in several instances, restored flags captured
from us. The President Immediately after
ward rescinded the order, which he had
thus been hastily led to make. That order of
recision had the endorsement of our party
at Cleveland, and now has the approval of
your candidate. As Governor Foraker is the
only man in Ohio now exercised upon the SUBJ
ject, he ought certainly to be willing to trust
himself. He has declared time and time
again. both in political meetinos and az soc;,I